Manfred Kets de Vries is the INSEAD Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change, and The Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus. He is the Founding Director of INSEAD's Global Leadership Centre and has been the program director of INSEAD's Top Management Programme, "The Challenge of Leadership: Developing your Emotional Intelligence" and founder and scientific director of the “Executive Master's in Change Management" at INSEAD.

Manfred Kets de Vries is also the chairman and Co-founder of The Kets de Vries Institute, a boutique strategic leadership consulting organization, working with leading companies in the world.

Manfred Kets de Vries has also held professorships at McGill University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, The European School of Management and Technology, Berlin, and the Harvard Business School. He is the author, co-author or editor of more than 50 books and has published over 400 learned articles or chapters in books. He is also the holder of four honorary doctorates. The Financial Times, Le Capital and The Economist have rated Professor Kets de Vries as one of the world's major management thinkers and one of the most influential contributors to leadership.